A complex and spectacular set of events in New York and Washington. The US government was quick to blame Al Qaeda, though no evidence of guilt was presented and there is much suspicion about what Al Qaeda really is. In the USA 9-11 assisted the Patriot Act's roll back of civil liberties, the stepping up of domestic surveillance and the financial advancement of the military industrial complex. Abroad 9-11 helped launched wars on Iraq and Afghanistan that had been planned long before.

While initially the audacity and enormity of such a crime being perpetrated by its own government was beyond many people's imagination, as time goes on, 9/11 is recognised by more and more people as a false flag.

Official Narrative

The "19 men with boxcutters" official narrative was promoted aggressively from the day itself, and although a few people pronounced themselves skeptical from day one,[1] it was widely believed amongst the majority of the public for some years. However, it is increasingly understood to be no more than a convenient cover story that has worn very thin. Almost everyone is agreed on the lack of integrity of the officials who came up with the official story, and a 2015 survey revealed support for a review amongst the Canadian population, something which the government failed to respect, trotting out the familiar platitude about "conspiracy theories".[2]

Mark Gorton terms Kevin Ryan's Another Nineteen: Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects "the best book I have yet read on the topic of 9/11".[9]

Problems

Compare the volumes of jetfuel and the concrete from WTC1 & 2 which its combustion supposedly pulverised on 9/11

Legions of insiders have testified that the official story didn't fit their experiences of that day (some of them have suffered premature deaths in suspicious circumstances). A mound of factual evidence has been produced, and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals, pointing to highly improbable accidents and glaring anomalies about the official story. Paul Craig Roberts wrote that
“If such a thing had actually happened, there would have been demands from the White House, from Congress, and from the media for an investigation. Officials would have been held accountable for their failures. Heads would have rolled. Instead... the worst security failure in history resulted in not a single firing. No one was held responsible.”[10] Instead, the US government has frequently cited "national security" to try to obscure the conduct of certain key officials on that day, and the commercially-controlled media has been almost[11] completely censored of articles questioning the official narrative.

Drills

A quite unprecedented number of drills were scheduled on or about the day of 9/11, and on or about the topic of Ossama Bin-Laden hijacking planes and flying them into buildings. Of these, perhaps the most important were those by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). These moved the majority[citation needed] of the US fighter jets so far from the Northeast Air Defense Sector that they could not reach New York or Washington in time. Moreover, they used "live injects" i.e. inserted fake blips onto the air traffic control which confused the operators who could not tell the exercise from the real events of that day.[12]

Air defence failure

The drills described above contributed in part to the failure of the US air defence on 9/11. However, multiple other factors also played a part (which are also unexplained by the 9/11 Commission's report. One was the change on June 1, 2001 of the procedure for dealing with hijackings which clarified that the Secretary of Defense much be contacted before shooting down a plane (allowing Dick Cheney to effectively order a stand down simply by making himself unavailable).[13] Another contributing factor was the fact that key personnel had just been changed and/or unavailable on the day.[14]

Cover-up

“Immediately after the attacks on the World Trade Center, the entire area in lower Manhattan was sealed off to the public and to the news media. All cameras were prohibited inside the secured perimeter and any “unauthorized” cameras were immediately confiscated.” (8 May 2009) - [15]

Official Inquiries

There have been two US government inquiries. The first, begun in February 2002, by its own admission not in "the blame game about what went wrong from an intelligence perspective" produced a report from which 28 pages were completely censored until partially redacted copies were released in July 2016. The second, the "9/11 Commission" was termed a "cover-up" even by one of its members.[16]

Truth movement

Many people worldwide have sought the truth about the events of 9/11, and declared themselves unsatisfied by the US government's claim of the "19 guys with boxcutters". These people make up the grassroots movement known as the 9-11 Truth movement. Many see the failure of the official narrative to explain (or for many years, even to mention) the extraordinary collapse of WTC7 as their most effective means to encourage others to realise that they have been the victim of a big lie.

Insider Trading

9/11 included a massive financial fraud. The insider trading on that day was relative tiny, but still indicative -- as was the fact that the SEC covered it up, and then ordered their records of the investigation destroyed.

Response

George W. Bush is informed by a Secret Service handler of the plane that hit the WTC tower on 9/11. He continues reading the story about a goat to the class

George W. Bush had no personal response to being informed about the attacks, something which was not reported upon at the time, and only emerged years(?) later. His failure to act contrasts with a slick machine which went into action (for example issuing the Patriot Act) by the [deep politician]]s who had prepared the 9/11 event. While an obvious windfall for "security" contractors, 9/11 was exploited by the cabal to profit both at home and abroad. Dick Cheney used informal CIA contacts to organise a hit squad and "expressly ordered the agency not to disclose the programme even to congressional overseers with top security clearances, as required by law". It is unknown whether this was connected to the 9/11 Premature deaths. When CIA directorLeon Panetta discovered this group, he ordered it to be halted.[17]

Abroad, the event was used as a casus belli for the resource wars, including invasions of first Afghanistan and then Iraq, although in 2016 Iran was found legally responsible by US courts.[19] In 2016, increased talk of "the 28 pages", suggesting that the event might be used as a leverage over the government of Saudi Arabia.

The controlled media was quick to call the 9-11 attacks "an act of war", a decision which effectively precluded a Peter Dale Scott writes that "Starting in 2001, both law and freedom have been progressively eroded. International comity, which depends on each state not doing to others what they would not want done to them, has been supplanted, at least for a while, by U.S. unilateral military engagement without constraint, acting without fear of retribution. Drone killings in far corners of the world have now become routine, causing more than an estimated 2000 Pakistani deaths, the vast majority of them untargeted civilians, and over 75 percent of them under President Obama. The preemptive war against Iraq, despite being proven both unwarranted and counterproductive, has been followed by the preemptive bombing of Libya, and the prospect of still further campaigns against Syria and Iran... 9/11 itself should be seen as a dialectical outcome of America’s imperial expansion and simultaneous decay — a process inevitably afflicting those superstates that amass and retain more power than is necessary for the orderly management of their own affairs."[20] criminal investigation from being carried out.[21]

Legal action

Multiple contradictory rulings have been issued about the events of 9-11, most notably by U.S. District JudgeGeorge Daniels. In 2011 he blamed Iran, the Taliban and al Qaeda for the attacks, and demanded that Iran pay over $10 billion. In 2015 he ruled that Saudi Arabia had "sovereign immunity" from prosecution, but he reversed this judgment in March 2018.

Perpetrators

While there is a huge amount of evidence that the US defences were stymied with complicity of senior figures in the US government (i.e. The cabal), confirmation that the attack was not a surprise is to be found in the fact that the events were covered up rather than investigated. Researchers differ on whether the cabal let it happen on purpose (LIHOP) or whether thay made it happen on purpose (MIHOP). Mark Gorton suggests that the 9/11 operation was planned by George H. W. Bush although he admits that he has no direct evidence linking him.[22]Chris Bollyn places the blame squarely on the Mossad,[23] and there does indeed seem to be a serious case to answer - summarised on the 9-11/Israel did it subpage.

Wikipedia has nothing much to say on some major irregularities regarding aircraft wreckage on 9/11. It implausible that black boxes, designed to survive impact and fire were not recovered while three of the supposed hijackers' passports reportedly did survive the fiery crashes.

Set up over a year after the event, refused access to the president's daily briefings, not testified to under oath by Bush or Cheney, the 9/11 Commission was termed a "cover-up" by former member Max Cleland, who resigned. His replacement declared that 9/11 was "a 30 year conspiracy". Their first report did not mention WTC7.

A 9-11 dissident is someone who publicly calls into question the US Deep state's official narratives surrounding the 9/11 event. The label is not for minor disagreements but for those with a more serious objection to the story as told by commercially-controlled media}.

A remarkable number of terror drills occured in the US on or around the day of 9-11, including drills about the hijacking of planes and the flying them into buildings. This is agreed by many 9-11 researchers to have been an obfuscation tactic, and to have hindered response to the real attacks.

The failure of the media corporations to investigate 9-11 on any level is an indictment of the controlled nature of the corporate media of the 21st century. Independent media has to an increasing extent filled the gap, as the unwelcome truth of September 11th is accepted by ever more people.

Mark Gorton suggests that the operation was planned by "the cabal", under the leadership of George H. W. Bush, with allies in Saudi Arabia. Deep state elements with the US government, the CIA and the Mossad all appear to be implicated.

Many people have been killed in an effort to suppress the truth about 9/11. Where convenient, deaths have been made to look accidental or illness related. Sometimes people have been "suicided", making it hard to know exactly how many were murdered.

A building in the World Trade Center which suffered at least one large explosion during September 11th. It housed the El Dorado Task force, which coordinated all major money laundering investigations in the U.S.

WTC7 was a 47-storey building which underwent a spectacular freefall collapse in its own footprint, relegated in Wikipedia to a fraction of a paragraph. Although completely unprecedented, this was not only predicted but announced by the BBC before it happened.

A victim of 9-11 on Wikispooks

A respected and sincere opponent of "terrorism" who faced opposition in trying to investigate the U.S.S. Cole attack and was later made Head of Security for the World Trade Center, where he was killed on his first day at work, September 11th, 2001.

The Iranian President proposed to the UN that they "set up an independent fact-finding group for the event of September 11th so that in the future, expressing views about it is not forbidden." Obama found the idea "offensive" and "inexcusable", and the US, EU and Israeli representatives walked out en bloc.

How 9/11 buried "the biggest financial crimes in history". An analysis of the highly complex web of US/UK covert operations and criminal banking activities going back to WW2, suggesting Western complicity in the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent looting of Soviet industry. The ostensible settlement/roll-over for these instruments were dated through September 2001 and would have clinched several high-level criminal investigations had they been allowed to settle normally.

Just 15 days after the 9-11, an exclusive interview with former Pakistani Gen. Hamid Gul. in which he opines that Mossad, not al-Qaeda were the perpetrators of the attacks, and suggests that it USA has any evidence against Al Qaeda, it should present it to an international court.

A detailed 'tour-de-force' analysis of the motives, methodologies, organisations and individuals behind 9-11 from a leading moral philosopher and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. One of the most recommended summaries of what transpired on that epoch-defining day.

'What they are responding to is not September 11th, but the beginning of a permanent and precipitous decline in worldwide oil production, the beginning of a deep and protracted worldwide recession, and the unraveling of the empire.'

A wide-ranging interview with Prof. John McMurtry that pulls no punches about the moral bankruptcy of the US globalising elite and its accomplices, allies and self-serving lackies. It covers the US War on Terror project, its military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the 9-11 attacks.

Related Quotations

“The 1993 WTC bombing created the necessary pretext for a massive engineering upgrade of the WTC complex. The purpose of the 1993 WTC bombing was not to bring down the WTC. A truck bomb could not bring down a structure as large as the WTC. The purpose of the 1993 WTC bombing was to create a rationale for a “security upgrade” of the WTC complex. And for this purpose, the 1993 WTC bombing succeeded perfectly. According to Alan Reiss, the PANYNJ’s World Trade Center Director, “After the 1993 bombing, we implemented a ten-year redevelopment program. We were spending a half a billion dollars on upgrades. It was an engineer’s dream”. After the 1993 bombing, the PANYNJ brought in Kroll Associates to do a “complete security analysis”. The executive director of the Port Authority emphasized the importance of Kroll’s work at the WTC by saying, “We have such confidence in [Kroll] that I have followed every one of their recommendations. The person who led Kroll’s work on the WTC was Brian Michael Jenkins.”

“I have seen no evidence directly linking George H.W. (Poppy) Bush directly to the 9/11 attacks, but just as physicists can detect the presence of a black hole by the actions of other bodies around it, so the massive force of George H. W. Bush in the 9/11 op can be inferred. Many people extremely close to Poppy Bush were actively involved in the 9/11 op, including: his son oldest son, George W. Bush; his youngest son, Marvin Bush; Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Prince Bandar, the Iran Contra network, and the BCCI network.”

“And what happened in 9/11 is we didn’t have a strategy, we didn’t have bipartisan agreement, we didn’t have American understanding of it and we had instead a policy coup in this country, a coup, a policy coup. Some hardnosed people took over the direction of American policy and they never bothered to inform the rest of us.”

“Curtis is an extremely talented filmmaker with an immense repository of archival footage at his disposal (some of which I utilized in Psywar), and he puts out a great product. But I also find that he tends to exaggerate the importance of particular individuals, groups and fanciful ideas in lieu of basic class analysis; he also appears to self-censor, often at critical junctures. I don’t recall seeing the slightest hint of skepticism about the official story of September 11th in The Power of Nightmares.”

“The events of 9/11, we were told, changed everything. The globe was now divided between the forces of good and evil. Bush communicated this quite clearly in an address to the nation just days after 9/11: “Our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.””

“The arguments swirling around the 9/11 attacks are emblematic of these issues. What fuels suspicions of conspiracy is the reluctance to address the sort of awkward gaps and contradictions in the official explanations that David Ray Griffin(and other devoted scholars of high integrity) have been documenting in book after book ever since his authoritative The New Pearl Harbor in 2004 (updated in 2008). What may be more distressing than the apparent cover up is the eerie silence of the mainstream media, unwilling to acknowledge the well-evidenced doubts about the official version of the events: an al Qaeda operation with no foreknowledge by government officials. Is this silence a manifestation of fear or cooption, or part of an equally disturbing filter of self-censorship? Whatever it is, the result is the withering away of a participatory citizenry and the erosion of legitimate constitutional government. The forms persist, but the content is missing.”

“I could not believe my own eyes. It was like everything I had said, everything I had been told by al-Qaeda. I was in no doubt. Same plan. Perhaps someone from the training camp was on board one of those planes. Perhaps, if I had not run away, I would have been there.”

“As a former operative in this group’s notorious covert missions, including Iran-Contra and the sting of Pablo Escobar, I recognized that this smoke rising over Manhattan might add a major piece to my large jigsaw puzzle of evidence.”

“I began a long time ago right after 9/11 being appalled by the fact that this cover-up was beginning, and then seeing this so-called war on terror began, and again had very little connection to what I knew what was behind that the terrorist attacks, and seeing "terrorism" grow. In the world right now if we wanted to be safer you do something, but you don’t do something that makes the problem worse.”

1 July 2016RobinA pretty authoritative tour round the circumstances of that terrible day.This is actually fairly patchy and by no means the last word on the subject; 9/11 was a hugely complex affair. However, there is a lot of information on this page and its subpages, and it gives an idea of the scope of the deception.